FAIRMONT HOTELS & RESORTS -DESIGN STANDARDS

FAIRMONT HOTELS & RESORTS · DESIGN STANDARDS
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Housekeeping, Laundry & Valet/General Requirements (continued)
k) Where hotels have long corridors, additional linen chutes will be
required to reduce travel distance for maids
l) Each chute should be accessed from a small service room
(approximately 50 ft 2 – 4.6 m 2 ), requiring a linen sorting room
complete with sorting slide at the termination of the chute. These
termination rooms are to be on the same level as the laundry.
Clean linens are to be returned to the guestroom floors for storage.
The valet, housekeeper’s office and related storerooms shall all be entered off the main
housekeeping area.
The following features are to be provided at the entrance to this area:
a) Electrical outlets at 4’6” (1.4 m) on centre line AFFL (time stamp)
b) Cork bulletin board 4’0” long x 3’0” high (1.2 x 0.9 m).
The following items are to be provided within the main housekeeping area:
a) Duplex electrical outlets (if not located in valet area)
b) Telephone outlets
c) Soaking sink
d) Lost and found cabinet
e) Housekeeping counter
f) Linen clerk station
g) Issue counter
h) Cubicle with two robe hooks (staff try on uniforms) with fulllength
mirror.
Formula for calculating area of housekeeping including daily linen and uniforms, day
stores, seamstress, lost and found and issuing is:
Quantity of guestrooms x 3 = ft 2 required.
Housekeeper’s office (approximately 150 ft 2 – 14 m 2 ) to include the following features:
a) Cork bulletin board 2’0” wide x 3’0” high (0.6 x 0.9 m)
b) Electrical outlets
c) One duplex electrical outlet (UPS)
d) Telephone outlet
The valet (approximately 550 ft 2 – 51 m 2 ) will provide full dry cleaning and pressing of
guests’ clothes, staff uniforms, drapes and blankets seven days a week.
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